Deploy Office 365 ProPlus with SCCM

You can use System Center Configuration Manager to deploy Office 365 ProPlus , to users and computers in your organization, By using Configuration Manager, you can also control which users and computers get Office 365 ProPlus, where they get the installation files from, and when the Office 365 ProPlus installation occurs.

You can select the primary language and additional languages. Click Next

Upgrade Options – The settings allow to uninstall the older version of apps.

Uninstall any MSI versions of Office, including Visio and project

Remove Visio

Remove Project

Remove SharePoint Designer

Remove InfoPath

Turn on the options that you require and click Next.

Licensing and Activation

Provide your Company Details

Application Preferences – You will find various settings here that you can configure. You can also customize based on individual office app such as Outlook, Excel, Access etc. The search bar allows you to type and search the settings which is very useful.

If you are done with configuring the settings, click Review button and then Submit.

Submit the Deployment Settings

On Office Settings page, click Go to the Office Web Page

For Deployment, select option Yes. Click Next;

Select Collection for deployment and click Next

Add Distribution Point and click Next;

Specify Settings for deployment and click Next;

For Scheduling, click Next (or config schedule);

Configure User Experience and click Next;

Configure Alerts and click Next;

For Summary, click Next;

On the Confirmation page, check that the application was successfully deployed, and then choose Close.

Navigate to Software Library\Application Management\Applications;

After you deploy the application, a targeted computer becomes aware of the deployed application during the computer’s next client policy polling cycle, which is once every sixty minutes by default. Then, the computer downloads the installation files for the application from a distribution point into the Configuration Manager client cache.

The installation of Office 365 ProPlus takes place from the client cache and no additional files are downloaded from the network or from the Internet.

Abou is a Microsoft Azure MVP and IT Pro with over 9 years of experience in the industry.
He focuses on Microsoft technologies. Starting as a support engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer at IPMC Ghana, he has worked up through the ranks of System Engineering, IT infrastructure Consultant and Cloud Solution Architect. He has deployed several complex solutions for Multi-national Corporations and Governmental Agencies. He is fluent in French and English.
Currently, Abou Conde is a Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Axxend Corporation. Prior to joining Axxend, Abou Conde worked at Global Information Technology Solutions (GITS) IT Company in Ghana, specializing in Enterprise Architecture both on-premise and in the cloud.
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